Persistent Quotes - Page 10

• I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Thinking, Years

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• Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Hollywood

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.

  Brenda Ueland

  Faith, Pain, Attitude

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• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Powerful, Champion, Faces

  "Elizabeth Edwards: 'With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too'". Elizabeth Edwards' speech at Consumer Watchdog’s 2007 Rage for Justice dinner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.

  Tracy Thompson

  Differences, Glasses, Air

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• The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Support, Pseudoscience, Blind

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

  Earl Nightingale

  Persistence, Have Faith, Strangest Secret

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

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• If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

  Rick Warren

  People, Addiction, Temptation

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• Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Prayer, Break Through

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Inspiring, Spiritual

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The characteristics that I look for when I'm looking for really good entrepreneurs to lead companies are you have to have an inquiring mind, you have to say there must be a better way to do things, and now with technology at a point where everything is possible, how do we turn the possible into the probable? And it all starts with a passion to do something really well, to solve a problem in a way that's never been solved before, and to have just an incredible work ethic, to be persistent.

  John Sculley

  Passion, Technology, Work Ethic

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Hillary Clinton has had a small but persistent lead since June - anywhere from 2 to 5 points. The stock markets and the election betting pools are predicting a Clinton win.

  Mara Liasson

  Winning, June, Election

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You're not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don't love what you're doing. If it's not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.

  Robert Greene

  Enough, Appeals, Tenacious

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Small Changes, Waiting, Albums

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Schools are, indeed, one important method of the transmission which forms the dispositions of the immature; but it is only one means, and, compared with other agencies, a relatively superficial means. Only as we have grasped the necessity of more fundamental and persistent modes of tuition can we make sure of placing the scholastic methods in their true context.

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Agency

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Mother, Children, Talking

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.

  Andrew Aydin

  Struggle, Optimistic, Years

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

  John Lewis

  Giving Up, Pushing, Presses

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  People, Guy, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving them, or being their friend or enemy or rival.

  Neal Stephenson

  Knowing, Enemy, Rivals

  "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

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• The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

  Sara Gruen

  Memories, Distressing

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, People, United States

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• There's always negatives no matter what you're in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.

  Louis Lombardi

  Negative

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Prayer, Simple, Comfort

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

  Steve Kerr

  Motivational, Basketball, Heart

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